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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Bill Harnum

Bill Harnum is director of publications for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto.

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Thinking in Groups

A new study illuminates the mysteries of academic peer review October 2009
How do professors think? The domain of the university and the behaviour, values and practices of those who inhabit it can be puzzling to an outsider. Non-academics (and by that I mean everyone who does not teach or do research at a university) may think that, like public school teachers, university professors’ main activity is teaching undergraduate…